A massive pile of 134 cars during a snowstorm on Tuesday killed one man and injured 17 in northern Japan, authorities said.
The accident – which took eight hours to clean up – stranded about 200 people on Tohoku Highway in Miyagi.
The crash happened when the region was in the middle of a snowstorm that carried gusts of up to 60 miles per hour and would dump nearly two meters of snow into northern Japan, the news agency Kyodo News reported in Tokyo.
The stack was caused by a truck that crashed into a passenger car shortly before noon local time amid the poor visibility in the storm.
The storm also forced transport officials to close the East Japan Railway, Kyodo said.
The details of the dead man and the extent of the injuries were not immediately available.
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